Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Biopython release 1.50

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We are pleased to announce Biopython release 1.50, featuring some significant additions since Biopython 1.49 was released late last year. GenomeDiagram by Leighton Pritchard has been integrated into Biopython as the Bio.Graphics.GenomeDiagram module. A new module Bio.Motif has been added, which is intended to replace the existing Bio.AlignAce and Bio.MEME modules. Also ...

Biopython 1.50 beta released

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

We are pleased to announce a beta release of Biopython 1.50 for public testing. There have been some significant changes since Biopython 1.49 was released late last year. GenomeDiagram by Leighton Pritchard has been integrated into Biopython as the Bio.Graphics.GenomeDiagram module. A new module Bio.Motif has been added, which is intended to ...

Biopython and next generation sequencing

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Those of you doing next generation sequencing may be pleased to know that the next release of Biopython is expected to include support for reading and writing FASTQ and QUAL files within our Bio.SeqIO interface. These formats are used for traditional Sanger capillary sequencing, and Roche 454 sequencing (Roche ...

Biopython and version control systems

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Initially for evaluation purposes only, Giovanni and Bartek have setup a mirror of Biopython on GitHub, which is automatically updated from the OBF hosted Biopython CVS repository. See our git migration wiki page for details. If this is favorably received, then moving Biopython from CVS to git seems ...

Google Summer of Code: Project ideas page

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

A wiki page for collecting ideas, possible projects, prerequisites, possible solution approaches, mentors, other people or channels to contact for more information or to bounce ideas off of, etc. has been setup: http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_Code_2009

Release 1.6 of BioPerl-run, BioPerl-db, BioPerl-network

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

All, I am proud to announce that the 1.6 release for BioPerl-run, BioPerl- db, and BioPerl-network are now available by direct download and via CPAN. These are designated as 1.006000, with a requirement for BioPerl 1.6 and higher (1.006000). FIXED: 1) Bio::Tools::Run::Primer3 now accepts primer3 or primer3_core as executable ...

BioRuby 1.3.0 is released

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Hi all, We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.3.0. The archive is available at: http://bioruby.org/archive/bioruby-1.3.0.tar.gz Web page: http://bioruby.org/ http://bioruby.open-bio.org/ API documentation: http://bioruby.org/rdoc/ Bug report: http://rubyforge.org/projects/bioruby/ (Updating of http://bioruby.rubyforge.org/ is still in progress. Please wait for a moment.) We also put RubyGems pacakge at RubyForge as always. You can easily install by ...

BOSC 2009 Call for Abstracts

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Please forward as appropriate and forgive multiple postings. Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2009 An ISMB 2009 Special Interest Group (SIG) Date: June 27-28, 2009 Location: Stockholm, Sweden URL: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2009 Abstract submission via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=bosc2009 Important Dates Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline May 1, 2009: Notification of accepted abstracts May 15, 2009: Early Registration ...

Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Google is committed to run the Summer of Code program again this year. It will be for the 5th time. In broad strokes, the program funds what you might call remote summer internships for students to contribute to an open-source software project. Projects (or umbrella organizations) wishing to participate in the program ...

BioPerl 1.6 released

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Release Pumpkin Chris Fields has announced the release of BioPerl 1.6 - the first stable release in a several years containing many significant improvements and bug fixes. I am proud to announce, on behalf of the BioPerl core developers, that BioPerl 1.6.0 is now available.  This is the first BioPerl core ...